Patricia pointed out that the summit should also be used as an opportunity to address the issue of faculty focusing on teaching specific software rather than the process of learning/ approach to teaching.

Patricia stated that she felt that faculty and admin were our target audience.

Charlie recommended that we need to make sure we include researchers.

Summit name suggestion:

Competition vs. Collaboration

Teaching, Learning, and Knowledge Production

Making Informed Decisions about Education & Technology.

Computing Driver's License

Patricia presented Computing Driver's License for review. She hopes to present this at the summit to at the very least start a discussion about it in order to have it adopted across campus. The Computing Driver's License is a test/ certification that focuses on general computing knowledge. It ranges from topics of the internet, operating systems, word processing software, etc. This would help address the question of “What constitutes a 1st class educaiton?” Patricia stated that HFA Dean Julie Hayes is interested in adopting this Computing Driver's License.

Summit Format

Maria stated that having presentations at different universities/colleges would be difficult and it would be easier to procure speakers by having a single location for summit.

Breakout vs plenary sessnions?

Nikki and Charlie would like the summit to have plenary sessions.

Charlie gave a suggestion of possible arrangement of sessions:

Technology

Open Source/ Commercial free-to-use/ proprietary

Open Learning Initiative/ Open Access

Research/ Publications

Right/ Intellectual Property/ Licensing

Collaboration

Pros/ Cons

Example: SPARK: losing support from producer, money/ time lost.

Showcase- suggestion to have poster session

Student Presentations

Patricia suggested idea of inviting students to present their own projects, not just faculty as previously recommended.

Charlie recommended that his sister could speak about creating an open source collaboration initiative for the arts.

Open vs. Proprietary

Jerry Schoen presented the idea that there is a trend to re-purpose software and that this notion should included in discussion. This reflects the idea that innovation comes from people rather than relying on technology.

Issue to address:

Q. How do you resolve the desire to use open source when there is a need to educate students with industry standard software?

A. Charlie Schweik gave example of two courses he has taught in which the beginning course was taught using open source software and then in a later course, students used industry standard software. Student would gain exposure and be better informed of their options.

Licensing/ Rights

What are the various licensing types and what rights to they provide?

IT Program

The Information Technology Program at UMass Amherst seeks to educate a broad spectrum of students to be the leading IT practitioners and thinkers. 107 courses, offered by eight schools and colleges, contribute to our curriculum.